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@MEB:  I can confirm that this problem is fixed.( one full version later, the report was at first  for the 1.7.xxx beta) Many thanks .I have tested all 1.8.x beta versions with my photo workflow and had no crash !!!
 

Hi j3rry, all,
This issue is now fixed in Affinity Photo Beta 1.8.0.168 GM (Mac) and in an upcoming Beta build on Windows.
Note: this is a GM build you may want to wait for the final 1.8 retail release soon.

Hi All Media Lab.
This is a known issue that's logged for both systems. It wasn't fixed yet simply because there wasn't time to do it yet. Please bear with us. I've updated/bumped the report yet again to bring it to devs attention.

Are the cropping issues reported in these threads fixed in 1.8?  I don't see them mentioned in the changelogs for 1.8 (or unfortunately 1.7.3).  Id love to use the new version, but I've gone back to 1.6.5 as the cropping problems make the newer version a no-go:
 
 

There have been a lot of changes to the crop tool in 1.7 (I lost my presets too, and the presets in 1.7 don't work like I need them to either). The way you (and I) used the presets, the new tool wants to be set to "unconstrained", which in 1.7 wont let you save as a preset.  Hopefully they are working on it, but If you need things to work like before, you may have to roll back to 1.6.5, which I plan on doing for now since I have some jobs coming up and I need it to just work!
I wish we could install them side by side, because other than this, the performance of 1.7 is quite good.  Note: Any afphoto file you save in 1.7 cant be edited by older versions, keep that in mind if you roll back.

I remember that too, that there was in version 1.6.x at the bottom of the pulldown a function, that I used for creating the absolute pixel size presets. In deed, it looks whether that was removed and is now replaced by a "Resample" function, which is apparently dysfunctional. I do not see any effect of the "Resample" function, once I hit the apply button. The online help is not updated as well to describe this function. So, this is really something that shall be resolved by Affinity:
1. Enable the "Create Preset..." function for the "Unconstrained" mode of the Crop tool.
2. Fix the "Resample" function.
3. Properly describe the "Resample" function in the online help.
Maybe someone from Affinity could commend this request. Can we expect improvements in version 1.7.3?

As mentioned in my original post, I just want to create a couple of presets with absolute pixel sizes for images to be cropped. No rescaling , no DPI changes or anything else. Just that.

I think a bug from 1.7.0.258 has returned, I just upgraded from 1.6.5 to 1.7.2, and recreated a few crop presets that arent carried over during the upgrade, but none of them actually do anything.  This is a repeat of the bugs reported in these threads:
[Fixed] User Created Crop Tool Presets have no effect - 1.7.0.258
The user created crop presets dont seem to work properly
 

I believe the latest version doesnt use ExifTool.